room for humour
Press Archive 2013
"Humour", Klinikum Fürth, Fürth, Bavaria,
19.04. - 31.10.2013
[Gerd Bauer] [Andreas Floris] [Anjo Haase] [Christiane
Pfohlmann]
Fürther Nachrichten, 23.04.2013, ANTJE SEILKOPF
About the healing power of humour
The new exhibition in the Klinikum Fürth makes us laugh
FÜRTH - "Humour" is the title of a new exhibition in the Klinikum Fürth. Caricatures and cartoons by four different artists aim to make the viewers laugh.

The exhibition was organised by the hospital together with the Fürth-based agency "Art-Agency Hammond". At the opening, the musicians Johanna Moll (vocals) and Ralf Bauer (trombone) contributed interesting samples of their art.
The visual artists of course dominate. Anjo Haase belongs to them. He alienates classic artworks in his digital collages and tops them with witty dialogues. From June on, his comic series "Mrs. Kermle" and her little tame capitalism appears in the weekly newspaper "Jungle World". Even cartoons by Gerd Bauer are to the experts already familiar from magazines. The Nuremberg-based cartoonist catches with a sharp pen adversity of life. He also has the job by doctors and nurses as theme of his drawings.
"She wants Braada shoe," and „Die konn sie sich doch gar ned leisdn“("But she can't afford it") lets Christiane Pfohlmann two people comment on one of her images in the best sound Franconian dialect. With a sense for this regional specialty language and a keen sense for the humour of everyday situations she fabricates her cartoons.
From regional to international affairs are leading series like "globalization" and "America cartoons" by Andreas Floris. With his drawings, he takes a critical look at economic developments and other cultures. Thus, an arc is struck from regional to global in the exhibition. And the future has in their place: art by pupils of the in Fürth-based Mittel schools including Otto-Seeling-Promenade, Am Finkenschlag, Hallemann-School der Lebenshilfe and the "School of Imagination"(„Schule der Phantasie“) is showcased on the first floor. Here, for example, very simple, with chalk on blackboards drawn people are giving a broad smile. These "people panel" show how simple humour and joy can be expressed.
That through laughter endogenous hormones are distributed, which have an anti-inflammatory effect, is by now known. Thus, fit the works of art to the theme humour perfectly in a clinic. If you want you can also buy your favourite work.